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Click to see a gallery of photos from Sugarland and Little Big Town's Bridgestone Arena performances (this image of Sugarland: Shelley Mays/The Tennessean).

On a stage full of science fiction-y whirligigs, the strong-voiced female belted out anthemic chorus after anthemic chorus, with soaring melodies pulled straight from U2’s bag of 1980s tricks.

If someone had happened upon Sugarland’s Incredible Machine tour scene Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena without any prior knowledge, and if that someone had asked just exactly what was going on, they might well have been told, “It’s a show by a country music duo.”

And then they might well have felt like someone was pulling their leg. That’s country music? That’s a duo?
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